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Does anyone know if there is any way to build custom transactions? I want to control exactly which addresses are used as inputs and I want to control what address the change is going to. Mostly though, the change address is the important part, so that I don't inadvertently link my addresses together.
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Well now. This is less than ideal. The Tor Project - a private nonprofit known as the "NSA-proof" gateway to the "dark web," turns out to be almost "100% funded by the US government" according to documents obtained by investigative journalist and author Yasha Levine. In a recent blog post, Levine details how he was able to obtain roughly 2,500 pages of correspondence via FOIA requests while performing research for a book. The documents include strategy, contract, budgets and status updates between the Tor project and its primary source of funding; a CIA spinoff known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which "oversees America's foreign broadcasting operations like Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe." By following the money, I discovered that Tor was not a grassroots. I was able to show that despite its indie radical cred and claims to help its users protect themselves from government surveillance online, Tor was almost 100% funded by three U.S. National Security agencies: the Navy, the State Department and the BBG. Following the money revealed that Tor was not a grassroots outfit, but a military contractor with its own government contractor number. In other words: it was a privatized extension of the very same government that it claimed to be fighting.
The documents conclusively showed that Tor is not independent at all. The organization did not have free reign to do whatever it wanted, but was kept on a very short leash and bound by contracts with strict contractual obligations. It was also required to file detailed monthly status reports that gave the U.S. government a clear picture of what Tor employees were developing, where they went and who they saw. -Yasha Levine |
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They definitely lack of people or organizing the people, that is why I think this merger will do super good to Poloniex.
You know why there aren't more billionaires? Other than it's very difficult to amass a billion dollars. It's because most people aren't crazy enough to keep working their ass off after they already have a 100 million. Some people are so crazy that they always want more and these are the people on the forbes list, but not most and probably not the guy who owns polo. He became wealthy AF and then just decided that effort wasn't worth it. At that point I suspect he kinda just let the exchange run on auto pilot. "Will you stop trying to talk to me about hiring people to clear out this backlog of tickets or what ever you are on about, can't you see I'm trying to snort this cocaine off this hookers ass." Well that's my theory anyway. |
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Thanks for letting us know you have no clue on privacy
Meh. It's possible to invest in the idea that people are going to move towards privacy focused cryptos without assuming that they will know which actually provides it.  And This again, Deeponin is nothing but bitcoin run through tor, any coin can do that. Hell thinking Dash is private is another perfect example of not knowing what the tech does and doesn't do. People just throw money at what ever is marketed at them, and they get what they deserve when they are left holding the bag. Sure I know all that. I don't think it invalidates what I said though. A mention of privacy, like all the companies jumping on the blockchain bandwagon. All I'm saying is that sometimes principles can get in the way in investing. What I'm definitely not saying is that I own any DeepOnion. Absolutely not. But if someone wanted to make the argument that 2018 was going to be a big year for privacy in cryptocurrencies and that this was going to cause DeepOnion to rise in value I would have to concede that that may be true and the fact that DeepOnion doesn't actually provide privacy may not matter. |
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Thanks for letting us know you have no clue on privacy
Meh. It's possible to invest in the idea that people are going to move towards privacy focused cryptos without assuming that they will know which actually provides it. And This again, Deeponin is nothing but bitcoin run through tor, any coin can do that. Hell thinking Dash is private is another perfect example of not knowing what the tech does and doesn't do. People just throw money at what ever is marketed at them, and they get what they deserve when they are left holding the bag. Sure I know all that. I don't think it invalidates what I said though. |
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Bitcoin's price is really stable at 10,000$ any thoughts on what is happening with this? would the price still go up from this value?
Illuminati confirmed! No but seriously. That fat finger at 1:30 in the morning on Feb 24th looks suspiciously like the manipulation that I have been watching for years in the gold and silver markets. All one big moronic sell order that no rational person would do on purpose. In the wee hours of the morning. Knocked down below a key support level. At this point I'm just assuming it was a fat finger but if it becomes a pattern, a regular occurrence, I might have to rethink that. Why would Bitcoin market be free of manipulation? It is a MARKET. Your trading/holding should count on manipulation (among many other factors). Nothing to worry about though. No no not that kind of manipulation. I'm sorry I should have been more specific. I am not talking about manipulation for profit. I'm talking about the FED or the BIS and its constituent banks attempting to prop up their own monetary regime(s) by systematically suppressing the price of their competitors. Again I'm not saying that this is happening. One data point does not make a pattern but it is something to keep an eye on. |
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Bitcoin's price is really stable at 10,000$ any thoughts on what is happening with this? would the price still go up from this value?
Illuminati confirmed! No but seriously. That fat finger at 1:30 in the morning on Feb 24th looks suspiciously like the manipulation that I have been watching for years in the gold and silver markets. All one big moronic sell order that no rational person would do on purpose. In the wee hours of the morning. Knocked down below a key support level. At this point I'm just assuming it was a fat finger but if it becomes a pattern, a regular occurrence, I might have to rethink that. |
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Thanks for letting us know you have no clue on privacy
Meh. It's possible to invest in the idea that people are going to move towards privacy focused cryptos without assuming that they will know which actually provides it. |
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those profits
And I thought they were expense items! Haha ok I reworded it. Hopefully it's more clear now. |
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Polo is not usable any more with bitches like Goldman Sachs owning it   Meh. It's hardly usable anyway right now in it's current state. And you know that only depends on whether you plan on paying taxes. I sold a little crypto to build a house and I was fine using exchanges that report to the feds because you cant get away with paying for something like a house without paying taxes anyway. So it all just depends on the situation. But yea if you plan on spending a million dollars per year of profits on hookers and blow and not paying taxes on those profits you probably shouldn't use VSquidEx. |
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No this reads as criminal only. But I do wish you the best of luck bringing civil action against the vampire squid! |
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Owow. I like this guy. This is exactly my approach to investing also. Thanks for the link. I'm going to go post it in the dash thread now  I thought about doing something like this https://cryptoizzy.blogspot.ca/2018/02/dashing-ahead-of-monero.html so they would click it expecting validation and instead get a pie in the face. But I don't want to damage my trust in the community. Boo  would have been even funnier. |
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That ain't Cliff High, that's why I'm going to be honest. I don't know who Clif High is or who the guy in the interview is. That's just what it said in the title of the video  |
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Oman guys. Did I ever just stumble upon something great. Forget Edward Snowden, who needs that twerpy little millennial cuck anyway. We now, apparently, have the full weight of John McAfee behind us, a serious candidate for the most bad ass man in the world. I copied this transcript from an interview he had with cliff high. It's a mirror so I'm not sure how old it is, I couldn't find the original. I hope it's not old news. https://youtu.be/33nYy7Iu4Jg?t=20m10sWell, there are thousands of crypto-currencies now, literally thousands. The top are things like Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero. Of those Monero is the one that needs to be watched the closest and here is why. The dark-web is where Bitcoin first got it's use. If you wanted to hire a hitman, buy illegal drugs, to get a live tiger from the jungles of Asia, you would pay in bitcoins. Now it's 100% Monero. Why? because Bitcoin can be unwound with enough computing power and enough will, if the FBI wanted to, they could figure out who a person was that did a specific transaction. But with Monero it is impossible utterly impossible it is completely anonymous and completely private. So that is why in the dark-web everybody is using monero. But what I have discovered is, what starts in the dark-web, in terms of crypto-currencies, leaks out into the world of white, the world of above board business. Because all people, I believe, all people would like to have anonymity and privacy, in terms of their financial transactions. And if I'm right than Monero bares watching, very closely. ... Bitcoin has now almost universally been accepted as, ok, its above board, it is open, it's a currency, people are using it and your not going to stop it. Monero, when Monero hits the light, and it has in many cases, were going to have a serious problem with governments because there is nothing, nothing, that the government can ever do to determine who is doing what and this scares governments, obviously. This does not scare me, I think this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. ... And if bitcoin does have a competitor, or will have, it will be Monero. This guy regularly gets air time on national TV and it appears that there is a very good chance that he will be using said airtime to sing our song. You know how everyone always says the reason we arent higher in market cap is because we lack marketing? Well, time to test that theory because here it comes. Also get a live tiger from the jungles of Asia Psh, what only one? Who hasn't used their Monero to buy at least one tiger? I wonder if he lurks. Hit me up John! |
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Sorry to necro bump but I suspect this is going to be relevant again soon and this is the thread for it. Any theories about the bottlenecks in mining with Cuckoo Cycle? I mean I know it's supposed to be memory hard but here is a platform with 96 DIMM slots http://www.tyan.com/datasheets/DataSheet_FT76-B7922.pdf This thing can hold up to 6 TERABYTES of DRAM. Surely one would start to run into processor bottlenecks before that point but when? And also just more generally curious on peoples thoughts on the most efficient way to mine with Cuckoo Cycle. Also fancy seeing you here aminorex. |
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Is Monero the most mined by the viruses?
Can this influence is value?
The reason there's speculation that Monero is mined mainly by botnets is because a lot of the hash power comes from unknown pools. Of course *some* of that is probably botnets, but most is probably just regular miners who value their privacy or simply don't list their pool publicly. And no, it *probably* would not influence value in any way. I can think of one reason why it might be bullish. Monero is exactly the kind of asset that you might expect someone like a hacker or bot herder to want. Additionally they may not have the sort of sunk cost and overhead that normal miners need to account for. Therefore maybe they aren't dumping as many of the newly mined coins on the market as normal miners do. You say that, unfortunately anyone who gets something for free doesn't care too much ho much they sell it for. Unlike real buyers or miners. More like bounty coins, dumped on launch for shit all. However I do accept the favourable side effect of increased network power and stability. Haha yea. That NEM I got for free and dumped would be worth like a million dollars today. |
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Is Monero the most mined by the viruses?
Can this influence is value?
The reason there's speculation that Monero is mined mainly by botnets is because a lot of the hash power comes from unknown pools. Of course *some* of that is probably botnets, but most is probably just regular miners who value their privacy or simply don't list their pool publicly. And no, it *probably* would not influence value in any way. I can think of one reason why it might be bullish. Monero is exactly the kind of asset that you might expect someone like a hacker or bot herder to want. Additionally they may not have the sort of sunk cost and overhead that normal miners need to account for. Therefore maybe they aren't dumping as many of the newly mined coins on the market as normal miners do. |
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It really is a technological arms race between the people and the elites. It drives me crazy because at heart I am an elitist. At least in a world where centralization is necessary. The prospect of a world run by plebs and proles is terrifying to me. But our elites are just so tyrannical, incompetent and out of touch that I actually some how find myself siding with populism in a lesser of two evils sort of way. The silver lining, I suppose, is that the same technology that is empowering the people against the elites can perhaps provide decentralized governance alternatives to all centralized power structures, be them run by populists or elitists. So, chin up lads, it isn't over yet. *edit* It might have been over if it weren't for this technology. |
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